Eric Hoffer Quote

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959 (ed. 1969)

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of...

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of...

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of...

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of...